I had written a comment here about 3 months ago accentuating my love for this game and how it is miles ahead of any other game I've played of its nature on this site. It seems to have disappeared now, so I thought Id write another so that others will come to know it's greatness! ^_^!!!! Both the story and the scenes are absolutely unparalleled! DS IS THE BEST!
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Hey Zetan, why do you replace the whole game's page at each new version instead of merely adding a new page into your game development log as every other developer here does? 🤔
As Angel Avalon and pirtch stated here, replacing the game page actually causes many issues such as losing all community interactions and removing your game from collections without any notification, I just noticed that you don't even use Itch's game development log feature which Itch specifically provides to allow creators to keep a changelog during their game's development and announce each of their update's content as you have been doing in the very game's description which is not the ideal place for a changelog, you are not making the best use of Itch's provided features. 😟
Actually, come to think of it, you have been using the game's description place as a changelog and you don't even provide any description of your game which is why people always comment to ask "what is this game about?" since you don't provide any description of your game beside its changelog which doesn't explain anything to people who discover your game for the first time and know nothing about it. 😅
I didn't notice it until now because I already knew this game for years so I didn't need to read its description anymore but now that other players mention it, they are right, you have been misusing Itch features because you have not been using Itch game page development log feature to specifically announce each content update and you have been misusing the very game's description as a changelog and not even providing any actual game description instead which is why you have been replacing the very game page at each update and losing all community interactions and removing your game from collections without any notice and as some people already stated, your misuse of Itch features has been causing issues and you need to use Itch features right as in do not replace your game page, do not include any version in the game page name, use the game description place to actually provide a description of your game for people who discover it for the first time and have no idea what it is about and use the game development log feature to keep a log of the game's development and announce and explain each update then all aforementioned issues will be solved. 😉
So, to paraphrase:
Blah, blah, blah.
Tell you what, MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING GAME! Then , you can make it exactly perfect in every way.
Spoiler alert #2: If people are confused about what type of game this is, they can check the reviews. Or they can read the comments. (Well, not YOUR comments. Those are just boring lectures containing mostly nonsense). Or they could download the game for FREE and find out for themselves why so many people are lavishing love on this game.
My guess is that you got beat up every day when you were in school. Probably multiple times every day.
First, why do you feel so concerned about anything I said to anyone but you? 😼
Second, why do you YELL AT ME FOR NO REASON LIKE A PETULANT BRAT WHO KICKS A TANTRUM to make my own game when I talked to a game's creator and not even about his game but about his game's page? 😏
Third, why do you even answer to questions addressed to anyone but you? You have to be really egocentric to believe that every question are addressed to you specifically. 😏
Fourth, nor the reviews nor the comments' purpose is to describe anything, only to express personal opinions.
Fifth, you claim that my comments are nonsense and yet you understood everything I said but you just can't counter-argument any of them so you do what you always do when you are unable to actually counter, you insult. 😏
Actually no, no one ever beat me up because I always defeated all of my enemies before they could even attack, this is what intelligence is. 😉
That's hilarious coming from you. You have stalked this thread sticking your arrogant nose into a great many conversations that had nothing to do with you. Giving lectures, and being the PETULANT child that you are.
THAT is what gave me the right to get involved in your whiny little tantrums. Is it clear to you now, retard?
Fair enough, there is no point pretending that I did not read other discussions and chimed in when I felt like it however the difference between us that you fail to understand is that I actually CAN back up my arrogance whereas you CANNOT, I speak to bring something to the table whereas you speak only to humiliate yourself so we are nothing alike.
Moreover, I didn't reply to that many discussions, only the few that I actually had something to say that was not already said.
Sigh, you are not a challenging opponent at all, you are merely a boring nuisance, like a flying bug buzzing near the ear, annoying but inoffensive, you are not even aware that using my own words against me has no chance to exceed me since they came from me to begin with and that only shows that you are not even capable of coming up with your own beside useless insults, you even reused my word "tantrum" twice into the same reply, are you that excited to have learned a new word that you keep reusing it into every sentence?
You know, I noticed that you keep using the word "retard", why does this specific word is so present in your mind? Is it what you think of yourself? Did you get diagnosed as intellectually disabled that you obsess so much about this concept? 🤔
Hello Zetan,
Come to think of it, if you keep creating a new game's page at every update of the same game then how does this affect payments?
I mean people who choose to pay something to buy the game to support you, their game can't be updated because since you create a new game's page at each update then you make Itch believe this is another game instead of an update of the same game which makes it unable to actually update the game from buyers' library, doesn't it? 🤔
the point of a new page for every release is so supporters can get the early access release. After every early access, the game update becomes public anyway, this way it is fair to my monthly supporters on patreon because it follows nearly the same early access logic. It could be that we will change this soon and make it more like steam
I'm sorry but I don't understand your logic because I don't see how creating a new game's page at every update grants early access to supporters because since you create a new game's page at every release then Itch thinks this is another game instead of an update of the same game and treats each release as different games thus ignoring previous payments because "this is not the same game they paid for, this is a new game" or did I misunderstand something? 🤔
Or wait, is this actually why you do it this way? So people have to pay again for every early release because Itch ignores their previous payments since you make it think they are other games instead of updates of the same game? 😲
And what do you mean by "make it more like Steam"? 🤔
yes, you read correctly and I explained it before, as only monthly supporters get early access and non active supporters don't, that's how patreon works. so to make it fair, the price for early access is the same for itch, and dropping lower and eventually public, no matter if you supported the game before as patreon also doesn't care about it. I hope after three attempts I explained it good enough for you. And by steam I meant one time buy - get future updates for free (after the initial early access for patreon & SS). We will go for this with steam and possibly have to do some changes regarding early access on itch, but it is too soon to talk about this.
TLDR: The pricing tier was always just a means of supporting for those that feel like it, since I posted on itch, the game becomes available for free in a short amount of time. So people are not obliged to pay for every release.
I see, so you did trick Itch to treat each update as a different game on purpose to sell your early releases before public releases. 😏
To be fair, this is only the second time that you actually explain your way of using Itch and this second "attempt" of yours merely confirmed what I theorized which is why you started it with "Yes, you read correctly" as I already understood the first time but needed confirmation that I was correct or if I got it wrong.
And you are explaining this only now because up until now, when you were asked why you keep replacing the game's page, you pretended that you did it out of ignorance because you didn't know how Itch works but now I see that you very well understand how to trick Itch, you sly fox. 😼
While I now understand your purpose of creating a new game's page at each update of the same game in order to sell each early release even if people already paid for the game, I'm still not sure if this is necessary because there might be a way to add new paying content without replacing the game's page as I seem to recall this occurring onto other games' page where their creator merely updated the page to add some new paying content such as DLCs so Itch might have already thought of a way to let you do orderly what you have been doing in your own messy way and this might be worth checking, don't you think? 😉
And come to think of it, if your goal is to sell every early release then you might as well create a new game's page for every update in order to make people pay again for each early update while keeping the main game's page that you actually update with every public release and onto which you could present the game's description and keep your development log which would be more stable than replacing everything all the time and you might even not need to create any other page if you can add new paying content to a game's page as I think then you might simply sell your early releases as DLCs which Itch would then treat as new content even if people already paid for a previous early release as Itch would consider "this is a new DLC and people paid for another DLC so they have to pay for this one as well" then you would simply remove the "DLC" and update the main downloads with public releases and that's it, how do you like it? 😉